Accused Delphi child killer Richard Allen is due back in Carroll County court Wednesday for the second hearing concerning several motions, which could shape the trial’s outcome of his murder trial. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Allen is facing four counts of murder for the deaths of Abigail “Abby” Williams and Liberty “Libby” German, two children …
A former ballerina was convicted of manslaughter Tuesday night in the shooting death of her husband. Ashley Benefield faces up to 30 years when she is sentenced, ABC News reported. Benefield took the stand Monday morning at her trial in Manatee County, Florida, testifying that she was “scared to death” of Doug Benefield and was …
A California jury this week convicted a 31-year-old man of shooting his 23-year-old girlfriend in the head while she was driving with four small children in the car, causing the car to crash into the Sacramento River. Mandiko Kwadzo then got out of the partially submerged car and stood aside without making any move to …
An Alabama man awaiting trial in the death of his son, whose decomposing body was found in a non-function freezer, has died. Court records say Michael Halstead, 44, was out of jail on bond when he died on July 7, death. A cause of death was not released. Halstead and his wife, 44-year-old Karen Halstead, …
An Ohio woman pleaded guilty this week to the aggravated murder of her 4-month-old son and was sentenced to at least 20 years in prison. Melissa Thorp, 40, entered the guilty plea on Thursday in Franklin County Common Pleas Court. Judge Julie Lynch then handed down the sentence of life in prison with the possibility …
A Michigan jury on Thursday found the man accused of killing beloved Detroit synagogue leader Samantha Woll not guilty of premeditated murder but deadlocked on counts of felony murder and home invasion. The jury also convicted 29-year-old Michael Jackson-Bolanos of lying to police about his role in Woll’s death last year in her Detroit home, …
An Arkansas man charged with drowning his girlfriend’s 5-year-old son in a toilet two years ago pleaded guilty this week to first degree murder and first degree battery. Nathan Bridges, 34, was promptly sentenced to 60 years in prison for the death of Blu Rolland, WMC reported. The boy was found buried under the floor …
A Massachusetts judge, citing a juror’s “credible” and “reasonable fear for their safety and their family’s safety,” ordered the indefinite sealing of the Karen Read murder trial juror list on Thursday. On July 1, Judge Beverly Cannone declared a mistrial after the jury of six women and six men said they were deadlocked in their …
Kaitlin Armstrong, who gained national notoriety for the murder of professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson in 2022, is facing another lawsuit from Wilson’s family. The lawsuit, submitted last week in Travis County, Texas, named Armstrong, her sister, mother, and ex-boyfriend as defendants. It claimed Armstrong transferred “most, if not all, of her assets” to her …
